Books published by Smokestack Books

Fox Populi takes poetry on a hilarious, Creature Comforts-style journey through the crackly airwaves of contemporary culture. Radiomic in hand, Kate Fox listens in on comedians and psychiatrists, Great North runners and nutters, and the staff of a call centre in modernday Tynemouth. Herself a familiar voice on BBC TV and radio, this first fulllength collection confirms Kate Fox's position as one of the UK's most popular poetcomedians. "e;Funny, quirky and a wonderful writer."e; Sarah Millican, standup comedian. "e;Sylvia Plath channelling Victoria Wood"e; Matt Harvey.

A new collection of poems for grown-ups from the 2007-to-2009 Children's Laureate. The absurdities of everyday life, the details of food and objects and the tyranny of austerity and prejudice are taken on as subjects.